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[Besides, my good friend, let me tell you, that fellow]
Besides, my good friend, let me tell you, that fellowThat framed the bottle, his brains were but shallow;
The case is so clear, I nothing need mention,
The Iack is a nearer and deeper invention;
When the bottle is cleaned, the dregs fly about,
As if the guts and the brains flew out;
But if in a cannon-bore Iack it had been,
From the top to the bottom all might have been clean.
And I wish his soul no comfort man lack,
That first devised the bouncing Black Iack.
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